Site Reliability Engineer

At Fitbit, our mission is to help people lead healthier, more active lives by empowering them with data, inspiration and guidance to reach their goals. We started our journey in 2007 as a team of two with one big idea. Today, that idea has become a movement. Fitbit is now a publicly traded company creating award-winning products and services that are available across the globe. We’re transforming the way the world sees health & fitness. In fact, the Fitbit Community has taken enough steps to walk from the Sun to Pluto. Our culture combines the spirit of startup with the advantages of being public, offering a competitive benefits package and amazing perks. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to grow your career, contribute your ideas to life-changing products and services, and above all have fun doing it.

In our newest Fitbit office in Bucharest, located in the heart of the city, we are planning to build on the foundation laid by the Vector Watch team. We are looking to keep growing and this role will be fundamental to the continued success of Fitbit as we build exciting new products and services. Think you’ve found your fit? See what we’re looking for below and apply today.

About the team:

As Fitbit continues to build microservices and begins its migration to Google Cloud our system is growing ever more complex. Our use of technologies such as Kafka, ZooKeeper, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, and Finagle/Finatra have been increasing significantly and in some cases have led to incidents as we encounter their rough edges or the limits of the company's knowledge of those applications and frameworks. Additionally, our legacy codebases that utilize Spring and Hibernate often require developers with deep expertise in those frameworks to pitch in for refactoring or handling incidents.

In order to remain effective the SRE team needs to expand its skill set to include those technologies from a whitebox perspective, so we can better respond to incidents and to advise teams using them.

The Role:

Site Reliability Engineers are responsible for the pulse of the software ecosystem. We monitor and improve the system and suggest improvements for implementation by others. The name of the game is automating our job, because hiring linearly with our traffic growth is unsustainable. We are involved in incident and change management. We also act as consultants for engineers when new code and services are getting ready to launch.Our application stack is based mostly on Java, however, most of our operations automation is developed in Python. The major components we use daily are